PREVENTING COMPLICATIONS IN WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Infertility is a common problem among women today. Twenty-five percent of
women are infertile by the age thirty and as age increases, fertility levels
decrease. One cause of this is that Women’s Reproductive Health tends
to be overlooked in a woman’s younger years. When that happens, many
women are shocked to find out that they may be infertile. Having regular
pelvic and breast exams is one of the ways to stay on top of women’s
reproductive health, but getting tested for Sexually transmitted infections
is also very important. Keeping an eye on Women’s reproductive health
all through life may stop complications from occurring in the future.

Don't Overlook Women's Reproductive Health
Women’s reproductive health is often as important as other aspects
of their health and they need to gain a better perspective of their reproductive
system to enable them to understand just how sensitive their reproductive
organs really are. A woman who becomes concerned with women’s reproductive
health may need to understand how her hormones as well as organs come together
to produce a monthly cycle. Women’s reproductive health is also dependent
on the diet they consume because the food that they intake will impact and
influence their reproductive system’s functioning.

Understanding Hormone Functions involved in Women's Reproductive Health
A woman’s system often goes out of control and this would affect their
menstrual cycle and lead to their not becoming pregnant. To ensure those
women’s reproductive system stays in sync, women need to get regular
pap smears. An abnormal smear test often causes distress and fear among
women even though it is not necessarily a sign of cancer or risking developing
it in the future.

Since cervical cancer is the second most common cancer other than breast
cancer, taking a smear test is vital as it helps identify early warning
signs of possible cancer and also lead to halting further growth of cervical
cancer. Cancer is destructive of women’s reproductive health and apart
from cervical cancer; women may also have to contend with uterine cancer
or ovarian cancer. In addition, she may also get ovarian cysts, chronic
pelvic pain as well as fibroids.

That is not to imply that women’s reproductive health is only centered
on the pelvic region because even the breasts are an important part of the
women’s reproductive system which enables the woman to breast feed
her children for years or just months. The risk of contracting breast cancer
is a serious worry to women’s reproductive health, which may cause
damage to the breasts and lead to infertility. In the case of a woman who
has had mastectomy it may be rather disconcerting to have just one breast,
but using reconstructive surgery, it is now possible to have both breasts
back again.

Other major causes of worry to women’s reproductive health are when
infections such as yeast infections and bacterial agenesis affect the reproductive
system even though these are treatable conditions. However, pelvic inflammatory
disease can cause scarring and even infertility if not treated in time.
Thus, it is important for women to get to their doctors and keep their health
in check.